Word: umeå
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...Ever milked a moose? Meet Helga, Juna and Gullan?three cows weighing nearly half a ton each, who live on Europe's only moose dairy farm: the Algens Hus near Bjurholm, some 60 km west of Ume? in northern Sweden. Together they yield enough milk to allow owners Christer and Ulla Johansson to produce about 350 kg of a tasty, healthy cheese. High in protein and low in fat, the delicacy?which can only be made during the May-to-September milking season?comes in three varieties: one similar to a Camembert, the other blue like a Gorgonzola...
...Michèle Mock, team leader on the Institute's anthrax vaccine project. The current anthrax vaccine only neutralizes toxins. The same is true for a vaccine against tularemia, or rabbit fever, a bacterium that can cause fatal illness. With funding from the U.S. government, the University of Ume? in Sweden is trying to identify protective components of the tularemia bacterium and use them to develop a vaccine. And in Germany, scientists are developing a vaccine against botulism toxin. None of them will be ready anytime soon - so for now, there are plenty of bioterror scenarios without happy endings...
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